Our old kitchen had a total of 6, 6” can lights, and was 3 feet smaller.

Below in the next post is a render of our future kitchen already in progress. We are putting in 5” remodel can lights (our current preference over 4” but that’s still up in the air), and initially I had 4 of them in front of the perimeter cabinets (6” out from the 15” deep cabinets, 27” deep base cabinets; or to put it another way, 21” on center from the wall with the 15” deep uppers); plus 2 schoolhouse lights (1 in the little hall with the pocket door where there is a spice cabinet on that side of the pantry, and one over the cleanup sink, but centered on the passthrough window). The school house lights are 16” on center out from the walls with 28.5” counter tops (we had to work with what we had overhead).

I will have 2-3 pendant lights over the island, which is my primary prep area and where I will want the best lighting.

There is a small chandelier over our little kitchen table but it’s bright.

...Then I added 2 more can lights: a can light 6” out from the fridge, and 6” out from the pantry, which opens toward the kitchen table and will have ROTS.

We’ll be using 2700 K because I prefer the warmer lighting. We are putting under cabinet LED’s under all upper cabinets. The ceilings are 9 ft.

Also pucks in top of upper cabinets but those are for display only.

Is this too much, or should I remove or position the can lights in front of the fridge and pantry differently?

Additional Notes: The kitchen layout was designed here on GW, so frankly no more changes. Buehl and cpartist did a fabulous job : ) The cleanup sink cannot be centered under the passthrough window; we are totally happy with it.

Thank you for any help!